Of Mice and Men by
The Play & Director’s Note Of Mice and Men takes place during America’s Great Depression, which lasted from the stock market crash of October 1929 until 12 years later when World War II began. One result of...
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Akoopar by Shri Dhruv Bhatt
The Play Akoopar is based upon the first novel in the history of Gujarati literature, which deals with the life of Maldharis and their relationship with lions, nature and the animals of Sasan Gir- the...
Play It, So 17 Dances About Something
The Play It’s 2044. Janina, Jan and Janka start working on an experimental documentary. In one of the rooms of a well-maintained museum theater, while making use of some former technologies (MacBookPro, overhead projector,...
Discovering Cultural Unity in a Diverse Asia by Manohar Khushalani
The One Asia project which was born in Auroville, two years ago, held an exhibition and a series of performances in Mid December, at IIC. According to Jyoti Naoki Eri, its Founder Director, the...
Selections from the Annual Open Frame Film Festival, New Delhi by Tarini Sridharan
Still from Sadir to Bharatanatyam This year’s Annual 2012 Open Frame Film Festival, organized by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, included a series of compelling, thought-provoking films on a variety of diverse subjects. Light...
Snake, Love and Sexuality
Ravindra Tripathi’s There are a lot of stories in Indian mythology and folklores where you find the snake or the serpent as sexual motif. Some modern plays are also based upon it. For example...
‘The Park’ as a metaphor
Ravindra Tripathi’s Three benches for three – yet no space – a scene from ‘The Park’ The 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsva has started with fanfare. Although the city of Delhi is freezing with severe...
Begam’s Pillow from India or Muare from Argentinia?
Ravindra Tripathi’s ‘Muare’ – Movements and Physicality Tuesday (11.01.2011) was not as cold as the previous days. The sun was in the sky and the earth was having a sigh of relief. The atmosphere...
Do you know Janusz Korczak?
Ravindra Tripathi’s A Scene from ‘Sunil Shanbaug’s Play ‘Dreams of Talim’ Sometime you hear a true story which is more dramatic than drama, more painful than Greek tragedies. Here is a story for you...
A Magic Lantern Presentation
Flash-point human rights film festival comes to Delhi Still From ‘Suddenly Last Winter’ The three-day Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival, which brings together eight extraordinary films from around the world that deal with human rights...
